Why is SEOMoz telling me that meta descriptions are missing?

[cmoise]

We have descriptions using an Ektron CMS on a .NET platform. IT is wondering if using "meta ID" vs "meta name" is the issue?  Here is an example of the HTML code:

<meta http-equiv="<a class="attribute-value">Content-Language</a>" name="<a class="attribute-value">Language</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">en</a>" />  <meta id="<a class="attribute-value">ctl00_metaTagControl1_metaKeywords</a>" name="<a class="attribute-value">Keywords</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">hunting, fishing, outdoor, sportshooting, rodeo, off-road, hunt, fish, outdoors, community, shotgun, rifle, bass, trout, sportfishing, tarpon, ATV, television</a>">meta>  <meta id="<a class="attribute-value">ctl00_metaTagControl1_metaDesc</a>" name="<a class="attribute-value">Description</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">Deep-cranking technique lands Starks his second Elite Series victory.</a>">meta>  <meta id="<a class="attribute-value">ctl00_metaTagControl1_metaSubject</a>" content="" name="<a class="attribute-value">subject</a>">meta>  <meta id="<a class="attribute-value">ctl00_metaTagControl1_metaRating</a>" content="" name="<a class="attribute-value">rating</a>">meta>

[Francisco_Meza]

Here's mine:

name="description" content="BLAH BLAH BLAH" />

Yours is different. But what really matters is if Google is picking yours up. If it's an easy change, then I would change the meta descriptions to follow industry standards.

[jim_cetin]

Here's a link to the validator on W3.org: http://validator.w3.org/ . Run your site through.

I haven't come across the ID tag for the head attributes yet, nor has W3.org.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.2

The CMS might me miss-configured or has a bug!

[cmoise]

Thanks Jim.  I am not a coder so was unaware of w3.org.  I sent it to my tech team to check out.  I ran the site and it is showing some coding errors that deal with meta data, which may mean that Google can't read it and why SEOMoz is showing it as an error on our reports.

[JulieWhite]

Hello Jim can you solve this issue

Error Line 54, Column 7: Stray end tag head.

Error Line 56, Column 17: An body start tag seen but an element of the same type was already open.

Error Line 56, Column 17: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.